Apparatus, system and method of communicating a single carrier (SC) transmission

Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatus, system and method of communicating a Single Carrier (SC) transmission. For example, an apparatus of a SC Physical Layer (PHY) transmitter may include a spatial stream parser to distribute encoded bits of a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Service Data Unit (PSDU) to a plurality of spatial streams; a plurality of constellation mappers to map encoded bits of the plurality of spatial streams into a respective plurality of streams of constellation symbols according to a constellation scheme; a Space Time Block Code (STBC) encoder to encode the plurality of streams of constellation symbols into SC symbol blocks over a plurality of space-time streams; and a transmit beamforming module to map the plurality of space-time streams to a plurality of transmit chains.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. An apparatus of a single User (SU) single Carrier (SC) Physical Layer (PHY) transmitter, the apparatus comprising:
 a spatial stream parser to distribute encoded bits of a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Service Data Unit (PSDU) to a plurality of spatial streams; 
 a plurality of constellation mappers to map encoded bits of the plurality of spatial streams into a respective plurality of streams of constellation symbols according to a constellation scheme; 
 a Space Time Block Code (STBC) encoder to encode the plurality of streams of constellation symbols into SC symbol blocks over a plurality of space-time streams; 
 a plurality of Guard Interval (GI) inserters to insert GI sequences to the SC symbol blocks over the plurality of space-time streams by prepending each SC symbol block of the SC symbol blocks with a GI sequence; and 
 a transmit chain mapper to map the plurality of space-time streams, after insertion of the GI sequences by the GI inserters, to a plurality of transmit chains. 
 
     
     
       2. The apparatus of  claim 1  comprising an encoder to generate the encoded bits of the PSDU according to a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code. 
     
     
       3. The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the encoder is to encode the PSDU into an LDPC codeword (CW) comprising a short CW or a long CW, the short CW comprising 672 or 624 bits, and the long CW comprising 1344 or 1248 bits. 
     
     
       4. The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein said GI sequence has a GI length of 32, 64 or 128 samples. 
     
     
       5. The apparatus of  claim 1  comprising a plurality of interleavers to interleave symbols of respective ones of the plurality of streams of constellation symbols, an interleaver corresponding to a stream of constellation symbols of the plurality of streams of constellation symbols to interleave, on a symbol basis, symbols of an SC symbol block of the stream of constellation symbols. 
     
     
       6. The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of spatial streams have a same Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS). 
     
     
       7. The apparatus of  claim 1  configured to transmit an SC transmission over a bonded or an aggregated channel comprising a plurality of channels. 
     
     
       8. The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of spatial streams comprises no more than 8 spatial streams. 
     
     
       9. The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein a count of the plurality of space-time streams is double a count of the plurality of spatial streams. 
     
     
       10. The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of space-time streams comprises no more than 8 space-time streams. 
     
     
       11. The apparatus of  claim 1  configured to transmit a SC transmission via the plurality of transmit chains over a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) band. 
     
     
       12. The apparatus of  claim 1  comprising one or more antennas, a memory, and a processor. 
     
     
       13. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a transmitter of a wireless station to:
 distribute encoded bits of a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Service Data Unit (PSDU) to a plurality of spatial streams; 
 map encoded bits of the plurality of spatial streams into a respective plurality of streams of constellation symbols according to a constellation scheme; 
 encode the plurality of streams of constellation symbols into Single Carrier (SC) symbol blocks over a plurality of space-time streams; 
 insert Guard Interval (GI) sequences to the SC symbol blocks over the plurality of space-time streams by prepending each SC symbol block of the SC symbol blocks with a GI sequence; and 
 map the plurality of space-time streams, comprising the SC symbol blocks with the GI sequences, to a plurality of transmit chains. 
 
     
     
       14. The product of  claim 13 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the transmitter to generate the encoded bits of the PSDU according to a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code. 
     
     
       15. The product of  claim 13 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the transmitter to transmit a SC transmission via the plurality of transmit chains over a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) band. 
     
     
       16. An apparatus of a Multi User (MU) Single Carrier (SC) Physical Layer (PHY) transmitter, the apparatus comprising:
 a plurality of processing modules to process a respective plurality of Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Service Data Units (PSDUs) to be transmitted to a respective plurality of users, a processing module to process a PSDU of the plurality of PSDUs comprising: 
 a spatial stream parser to distribute encoded bits of the PSDU to a plurality of spatial streams; 
 a plurality of constellation mappers to map encoded bits of the plurality of spatial streams into a respective plurality of streams of constellation symbols according to a constellation scheme; 
 a Space Time Block Code (STBC) encoder to encode the plurality of streams of constellation symbols into SC symbol blocks over a plurality of space-time streams; and 
 a plurality of Guard Interval (GI) inserters to insert GI sequences to the SC symbol blocks over the plurality of space-time streams by prepending each SC symbol block of the SC symbol blocks with a GI sequence; and 
 a transmit chain mapper to map outputs of the plurality of processing modules, after insertion of the GI sequences by the GI inserters, to a plurality of transmit chains. 
 
     
     
       17. The apparatus of  claim 16 , wherein the processing module comprises an encoder to generate the encoded bits of the PSDU according to a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code. 
     
     
       18. The apparatus of  claim 17 , wherein the encoder is to encode the PSDU into an LDPC codeword (CW) comprising a short CW or a long CW, the short CW comprising 672 or 624 bits, and the long CW comprising 1344 or 1248 bits. 
     
     
       19. The apparatus of  claim 16 , wherein the processing module comprises a plurality of interleavers to interleave symbols of respective ones of the plurality of streams of constellation symbols, an interleaver corresponding to a stream of constellation symbols of the plurality of streams of constellation symbols to interleave, on a symbol basis, symbols of an SC symbol block of the stream of constellation symbols. 
     
     
       20. The apparatus of  claim 16 , wherein the plurality of spatial streams have a same Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS). 
     
     
       21. The apparatus of  claim 16  comprising one or more antennas, a memory, and a processor. 
     
     
       22. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a transmitter of a wireless station to:
 perform a plurality of processing procedures to process a respective plurality of Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Service Data Units (PSDUs) to be transmitted to a respective plurality of users, performing a processing procedure to process a PSDU of the plurality of PSDUs comprising: 
 distributing encoded bits of the PSDU to a plurality of spatial streams; mapping encoded bits of the plurality of spatial streams into a respective plurality of streams of constellation symbols according to a constellation scheme; 
 encoding the plurality of streams of constellation symbols into SC symbol blocks over a plurality of space-time streams according to a Space Time Block Code (STBC) encoding scheme; and 
 inserting Guard Interval (GI) sequences to the SC symbol blocks over the plurality of space-time streams by prepending each SC symbol block of the SC symbol blocks with a GI sequence; and 
 map outputs of the plurality of processing procedures, after insertion of the GI sequences, to a plurality of transmit chains. 
 
     
     
       23. The product of  claim 22 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the transmitter to transmit an SC transmission via the plurality of transmit chains over a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) band.